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There are 6 new ports for the week of May 25 to May 31:
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James Turner writes to let us know:
In the latest edition of bsdtalk, Will Backman interviews Undeadly's own Sean Cody about how his company, Frantic Films (a visual effects studio), uses OpenBSD. They also discuss ways to give back to the various BSD projects if you are unable to contribute code, such as donating.
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Following the recent Call for Testing story and the n2k8 Part 7 story, Mark Uemura (mtu@) sent this write-up from Ryan McBride (mcbride@) regarding the recent PF state table rearrangement commits (first, second) and the future of PF:
OVERVIEW
These changes complete the split between the layer 3/4 addressing information (state key) and the "extra" tracking information held in the state.
More of Ryan's follow-up below.
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Network Hackathon (Part 7) - May 5-10, 2008, Ito, Japan
The following two individuals have impressed me for many years now. Ryan McBride (mcbride@) and Henning Brauer (henning@) are the best of friends and each in his own right has done so much for OpenBSD.
Mark's account continues below with interviews and more pictures. Read more...
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Mark Uemura (mtu@) returns the 6th part of his series from the Network Hackathon in Japan:
Network Hackathon (Part 6) - May 5-10, 2008, Ito, Japan
We were expecting a bit more participation from Japanese developers at the hackathon. Unfortunately, the timing of the event was just after Golden Week which is when the whole country takes a week long holiday to spend with their families. Despite this, we were blessed with what seemed to be la crème de la crème of Japanese developers. Their time with us was short but fruitful in many ways.
Part 6 continues below with interviews, more pictures and a special remembrance of Itojun.
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Ryan McBride (mcbride@) posted to the OpenBSD Tech mailing list this evening asking for testers of the most recent snapshots. There has been a lot of work going into the PF internals in preparation for work at the upcoming hackathon. Users are asked to check for regression bugs, particularly in complex configurations with high state counts.
Note: This presents a flag day for PF. As such, userland must be updated to match the kernel, and certain applications that rely on the ABI will be broken until they're updated. Read below for the full announcement and all the details.
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There are 7 new ports for the week of May 18 to May 24:
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Following a surge of activity in the OpenBSD/sparc64 port to support the Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 250 and its Sparc-V cpu, Mark Kettenis (kettenis@) is now looking to extend the support for the OpenBSD Sparc64 port even further by making sure it works on the SUN Mx000 (4000 and up) line of servers.
Since we do not have these servers we would be grateful if someone that owns or uses one of these machines will let us connect to it remotely and hack on it, preferably by means of a serial connection.
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Mark Kettenis (kettenis@) tells us about the latest developments in the OpenBSD/sparc64 world, support for the sun4us cpu architechture:
So from his trip to Japan, Theo brought home a Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER machine. This machine has SPARC V9 (64-bit) CPUs. However these are not Sun's UltraSPARC processors, but Fujitsu's own SPARC64-V processors. And as far as I can determine, no open source operating system would run on these machines (not even OpenSolaris with its binary-only components).
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Mark Uemura (mtu@) shares the fifth edition of his series of articles from the Network Hackathon in Japan:
Network Hackathon (Part 5) - May 5-10, 2008, Ito, Japan
Marco Pfatschbacher (mpf@) seemed to really enjoy his experience at the N2K8 hackathon. Like many, it was his first time to Asia, let alone Japan. What is it about Japan that leaves tourists and visitors with a good impression going home?
Continue on for the fifth piece of Mark's series with more pictures and some information about Japan.
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Julien Mabillard writes about OpenBSD at LinuxDays (May 21, 22):
As a long time OpenBSD user (since 2.4), I have been pleased to be there at the LinuxDays event in Geneva, Switzerland to run the OpenBSD booth for the event. LinuxDays has become a regular Open Source conference here in Geneva. It is mainly Linux-oriented but also focuses on the open source world at large in different areas: telecommunications, government, education, industry.
Julien continues below.
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Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has just committed an update to the spamd(8) sync protocol, fixing some bugs. The bugs are mostly affecting users with pools of mixed endian machines and users of 64-bit platforms. Since this update is incompatible with the old protocol, the version number was bumped. This means that if you're using a synced spamd setup, you should update your machines at the same time, or they will no longer be able to sync. Read more...
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Gerardo Santana announces an update to binpatch:
Binpatch is a framework for creating binary patches for OpenBSD on all platforms in a semi-automatic way. It can automatically download the source patches published on the OpenBSD page, apply them, build them, and package the result into binary patches. You can learn more about binpatch at its home page or browse the source code at github.
More details in the Changelog below...
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Mark Uemura (mtu@) continues his recap of the Network Hackathon with Part 4 of the series:
Network Hackathon (Part 4) - May 5-10, 2008, Ito, Japan
At AsiaBSDcon 2008, Claudio Jeker (claudio@) gave a fascinating overview of OpenBSD's network stack internals (paper, slides). After the talk, I couldn't think of anything closer to brain surgery than having to work with OpenBSD's network stack. If you have a look at the slides and paper, you will have a better understanding of what I mean.
More from Part 4 (with lots of pictures) below.
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Mark Uemura (mtu@) brings us Part 3 of his series from the Network Hackathon featuring Damien Miller (djm@):
Network Hackathon (Part 3) - May 5-10, 2008, Ito, Japan
Damien Miller (djm@) is one of the most amiable guys that I've ever met. I thought that he was one of the best speakers at AsiaBSDcon last year when he gave his "Security Measures in OpenSSH" talk (slides, paper). It was an excellent presentation. I was also fascinated by how he was able to connect with the audience. He is so humble, polite and smart. I am starting to think that this is an Australian trait. :-)
The third edition of the n2k8 series continues below.
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Mark Uemura (mtu@) is back with his second installment of his account of the Network Hackathon in Japan:
Network Hackathon (Part 2) - May 5-10, 2008, Ito, Japan
I remember meeting David Gwynne (dlg@) at AUUG (2004). At that time, he was working on USB drivers for OpenBSD. Since then, he's been all over the tree. It is really interesting to see him interact with the other developers at a hackathon. He's really humble and humorous in his subtle way (a hilarious collection of T-Shirts) but very articulate. That is, he knows how to convey his thoughts clearly or argue his position but in a non-confrontational way. I guess that was why he sat right beside Theo during the hackathon or was it because he was in spitting distance to those Tim Tams?
More from Part 2, with pictures, below.
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Update by oga@ (May 20 2008, 12:15:00 BST): The goal was reached in just over 2.5 hours. Man, that was fast! I'd like to give a huge vote of thanks to everyone who donated (I'll get around to thanking you personally over the next few days). An extra special thanks should also go to Marc Balmer (mbalmer@) for organising this effort. The new laptop will be ordered as soon as the insurance cheque clears.
Again, thanks for making a replacement laptop a possibility.
Please continue to support your favorite OS here.
----As Marc Balmer (mbalmer@) posted on misc@ today, Owain Ainsworth (oga@) needs a replacement laptop:
Dear OpenBSD Users
A short while ago, Owain Ainsworth's (oga@) laptop was stolen. As you all know, oga@ is working on DRI/DRM and on X11 (xenocara) together with Matthieu Herrb.
Marc's email continues below.
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